5

patrons

$9

per month

I've been writing about the intersection of consumer technology and people for more than 25 years--and, for the past eight years, as a full-time freelancer contributing to the likes of Yahoo Finance, USA Today, and Wirecutter. In that time, I've seen some brilliant ideas take off, but I've also seem a lot of dreadful ones infect the industry I cover and the one I work in.

Tiers

Readers

Commenters

$10 or more per month

Unlike a lot of tech journalists, I don't think "commenter" is a dirty word. I always appreciated my regulars at the Post, and I've enjoyed hearing from some of them elsewhere. This tier will get you every patron-only post here, plus access to a Slack channel where you can quiz me directly (or talk about me with other patrons when I'm not looking).

Correspondents

$25 or more per month

Readers who write back regularly are even better. In addition to posts here and the Slack channel, this tier will get you one personalized tech consult a month. Not sure what laptop, smartphone or online-TV service to get? Ask. (Just please don't ask me about enterprise software.)

I've been writing about the intersection of consumer technology and people for more than 25 years--and, for the past eight years, as a full-time freelancer contributing to the likes of Yahoo Finance, USA Today, and Wirecutter. In that time, I've seen some brilliant ideas take off, but I've also seem a lot of dreadful ones infect the industry I cover and the one I work in.

Tiers

Readers

Commenters

$10 or more per month

Unlike a lot of tech journalists, I don't think "commenter" is a dirty word. I always appreciated my regulars at the Post, and I've enjoyed hearing from some of them elsewhere. This tier will get you every patron-only post here, plus access to a Slack channel where you can quiz me directly (or talk about me with other patrons when I'm not looking).

Correspondents

$25 or more per month

Readers who write back regularly are even better. In addition to posts here and the Slack channel, this tier will get you one personalized tech consult a month. Not sure what laptop, smartphone or online-TV service to get? Ask. (Just please don't ask me about enterprise software.)